InfoQ's third annual QCon London conference is coming back March 11-13, just 3 months away. Last year's QCon London had over 450 registrants & 100 speakers. Some of this year QCon's speakers include:

Tony Hoare - Inventor of Quicksort, Turing Award Winner

Joe Armstrong - Father of Erlang

Martin Fowler - Loud Mouth on Object Design

Steve Freeman - Agile Software Development Pioneer

Michael T. Nygard - Author of "Release IT"

Rod Johnson - Creator of Spring

Dion Hinchcliffe - Web 2.0 and Social Media Industry Expert

Eric Evans - Mr. Domain Driven Design

...and many more

The track themes for QCon London & track hosts are as follows:

Architectures in Financial Applications - Hosted by Cleve Gibbon and Alexis Richardson
The latest innovations as well as time-proven best practices that architects of banking & finance systems need to know.

Emerging languages in the enterprise - Hosted by Ola Bini
Solutions built on top of languages like Python, Ruby, Groovy and Scala is becoming more common, both to build integration solutions and full-fledged systems.

Real World SOA - Hosted by Stefan Tilkov
The track will focus on experience gained in applying SOA in the real world.

Domain-Driven Design & Development - Hosted by Eric Evans
This track will take you through the foundations of DDD, and how they are applicable and actually applied in projects.

Functional and Concurrent Programming - Hosted by Erik Meijer
The track presents a series of examples of actual use of functional programming languages and actor/concurrent languages and discuss how it affects our way to comprehend distributed, asynchronous software systems.

Domain Specific Languages - Hosted by Neal Ford
This track covers a wide range of business areas and technical implementations.

Historically bad ideas - Hosted by Floyd Marinescu & Aino Corry
This track will feature technology directions that were once discussed almost like silver bullets but which later proved to be bad ideas or short-lived fads.

Next Generation Web on .NET - Hosted by Beat Schwegler
Learn how to develop state of the art Web Applications using technologies such as ASP.NET, Silverlight 2.0, Deep Zoom and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Systems that never stop - Hosted by Michael NygardHow do you develop, test, update, maintain, and reason about systems without borders?

The previous QCon was well received, below are some comments from bloggers who attended our last QCon:

Erik Johnson - QCon London was a top-notch event and among the great presentations, two things I learned stand out ...

Nik Silver - every hour of the three days of the conference there were insights and guidance that could be tucked away, and reused later to save hours, days or weeks of time elsewhere.

Matthew Ford - ... I've just spent the last week at QCon and I've just about fully recovered (it was pretty intense)...

Ola Bini - I had a great time and I look forward to being back the next time. I can definitely recommend QCon as one of the best conferences around in this industry.

Steve Vinoski - I just returned home from QCon London, and its excellence exceeded my expectations. As usual, the quality of speakers QCon attracts is outstanding, and they cover a very wide variety of topics.

Antonio Goncalves - I only had two days at the conference and I have to say, QCon is different from what I'm used to. The audience looked more experienced (or older if you want) and the quality of the presentations was really high

Danilo Sato - I was really impressed with the quality of the conference, from tracks, to sessions, and speakers. QCon is one of the best technical conferences I've participated and I recommend it for anyone interested in enterprise software development. I'm looking forward to attending again next year.

Simon Brown - ... there were a couple of time slots where I wish I could have split myself into two. Overall it was another great event and I highly recommend it for anybody thinking about attending next year.